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I found this interesting picture of the EVA underwater simulations. Notice the blue arrows on the underwater OM along the handrails. That looks like the path the astronaut followed during the actual spacewalk.

The subsat, BanXing, is gonna be release at around 7:00PM. BanXing will take pictures of ShenZhou-7. After the reentry module comes back to earth. The subsat will try to come close to the OM and circle around it.

The camera in BanXing is similar to that of Chang'e 1. So 3-D picture will be taken. This camera can take clear pictures of objects within 4-2000m. And the storage can store over 3,000 pictures.

Wonderful coverage, sadly I wasn't able to follow it live, even though I'd have loved to! Thanks for the YouTube links and extra detailed information about the mission the Chinese members are providing, it's really valuable

Congratulations to China on this great day, spaceflight is being made wider. This shows the awe-inspiring feats we can achieve if we put ourselves to it.

COLA will search for satellites having altitude rangesthat intersect the range from 98.04 to 607.08 km,and that come within ***** km of the target satellite ata time within +/- 5.0 days of both satellite epochs.

Satellites in range of ISS: 1

Date UTC Time Norad Name Range (km) NdAng EphAge

9/27/2008 0:40:00.29 33386 Shenzhou 7 1867.7 81.3 -0.21

9/27/2008 1:25:38.18 33386 Shenzhou 7 1741.3 82.0 -0.18

9/27/2008 2:11:18.25 33386 Shenzhou 7 1672.0 82.0 -0.15

9/27/2008 2:56:56.52 33386 Shenzhou 7 1545.0 82.8 -0.11

9/27/2008 3:42:36.21 33386 Shenzhou 7 1475.9 82.8 -0.08

9/27/2008 4:28:14.88 33386 Shenzhou 7 1348.5 83.5 -0.05

9/27/2008 5:13:54.19 33386 Shenzhou 7 1279.5 83.5 -0.02

9/27/2008 5:59:33.22 33386 Shenzhou 7 1151.6 84.3 +0.01

9/27/2008 6:45:12.17 33386 Shenzhou 7 1082.9 84.1 +0.04

9/27/2008 7:30:51.56 33386 Shenzhou 7 954.6 84.9 +0.08

9/27/2008 8:16:30.17 33386 Shenzhou 7 886.2 84.7 +0.11

9/27/2008 9:02:09.89 33386 Shenzhou 7 757.5 85.5 +0.14

9/27/2008 9:47:48.18 33386 Shenzhou 7 689.3 85.1 +0.17

9/27/2008 10:33:28.21 33386 Shenzhou 7 560.3 85.9 +0.20

9/27/2008 11:19:06.20 33386 Shenzhou 7 492.4 85.2 +0.23

9/27/2008 12:04:46.53 33386 Shenzhou 7 363.1 85.7 +0.27

9/27/2008 12:50:24.23 33386 Shenzhou 7 295.7 84.2 +0.30

9/27/2008 13:36:04.84 33386 Shenzhou 7 166.2 83.3 +0.33

9/27/2008 14:21:42.27 33386 Shenzhou 7 100.4 76.3 +0.36

9/27/2008 15:07:23.15 33386 Shenzhou 7 36.6 61.0 +0.39

9/27/2008 15:53:00.33 33386 Shenzhou 7 101.9 76.6 +0.42

9/27/2008 16:38:41.46 33386 Shenzhou 7 230.0 84.6 +0.46

9/27/2008 17:24:18.41 33386 Shenzhou 7 297.2 84.3 +0.49

9/27/2008 18:09:59.75 33386 Shenzhou 7 426.9 85.8 +0.52

9/27/2008 18:55:36.50 33386 Shenzhou 7 493.6 85.3 +0.55

9/27/2008 19:41:18.05 33386 Shenzhou 7 623.8 85.7 +0.58

9/27/2008 20:26:54.60 33386 Shenzhou 7 690.1 85.2 +0.62

9/27/2008 21:12:36.34 33386 Shenzhou 7 820.5 85.2 +0.65

9/27/2008 21:58:12.72 33386 Shenzhou 7 886.5 84.8 +0.68

9/27/2008 22:43:54.63 33386 Shenzhou 7 1017.0 84.6 +0.71

9/27/2008 23:29:30.85 33386 Shenzhou 7 1082.6 84.2 +0.74

9/28/2008 0:15:12.92 33386 Shenzhou 7 1213.2 83.9 +0.77

9/28/2008 1:00:49.01 33386 Shenzhou 7 1278.5 83.5 +0.81

9/28/2008 1:46:31.21 33386 Shenzhou 7 1409.2 83.2 +0.84

9/28/2008 2:32:07.17 33386 Shenzhou 7 1474.0 82.8 +0.87

9/28/2008 3:17:49.50 33386 Shenzhou 7 1604.7 82.5 +0.90

9/28/2008 4:03:25.36 33386 Shenzhou 7 1669.1 82.1 +0.93

9/28/2008 4:49:07.78 33386 Shenzhou 7 1799.8 81.7 +0.96

9/28/2008 5:34:43.56 33386 Shenzhou 7 1863.8 81.4 +1.00

9/28/2008 6:20:26.07 33386 Shenzhou 7 1994.4 80.9 +1.03

9/28/2008 7:06:01.77 33386 Shenzhou 7 2058.0 80.6 +1.06

9/28/2008 7:51:44.36 33386 Shenzhou 7 2188.6 80.1 +1.09

9/28/2008 8:37:20.01 33386 Shenzhou 7 2251.7 79.8 +1.12

9/28/2008 9:23:02.64 33386 Shenzhou 7 2382.2 79.3 +1.15

9/28/2008 10:08:38.26 33386 Shenzhou 7 2444.8 79.0 +1.19

9/28/2008 10:54:20.93 33386 Shenzhou 7 2575.2 78.5 +1.22

9/28/2008 11:39:56.52 33386 Shenzhou 7 2637.3 78.2 +1.25

9/28/2008 12:25:39.22 33386 Shenzhou 7 2767.5 77.7 +1.28

9/28/2008 13:11:14.81 33386 Shenzhou 7 2829.2 77.4 +1.31

9/28/2008 13:56:57.52 33386 Shenzhou 7 2959.2 76.9 +1.34

9/28/2008 14:42:33.11 33386 Shenzhou 7 3020.4 76.6 +1.38

9/28/2008 15:28:15.81 33386 Shenzhou 7 3150.1 76.1 +1.41

9/28/2008 16:13:51.43 33386 Shenzhou 7 3210.8 75.8 +1.44

9/28/2008 16:59:34.11 33386 Shenzhou 7 3340.3 75.3 +1.47

9/28/2008 17:45:09.76 33386 Shenzhou 7 3400.5 75.0 +1.50

9/28/2008 18:30:52.42 33386 Shenzhou 7 3529.7 74.4 +1.53

9/28/2008 19:16:28.11 33386 Shenzhou 7 3589.4 74.2 +1.57

9/28/2008 20:02:10.72 33386 Shenzhou 7 3718.2 73.6 +1.60

9/28/2008 20:47:46.48 33386 Shenzhou 7 3777.4 73.4 +1.63

9/28/2008 21:33:29.03 33386 Shenzhou 7 3905.8 72.8 +1.66

9/28/2008 22:19:04.86 33386 Shenzhou 7 3964.4 72.6 +1.69

9/28/2008 23:04:47.35 33386 Shenzhou 7 4092.5 72.0 +1.72

9/28/2008 23:50:23.26 33386 Shenzhou 7 4150.6 71.7 +1.76

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This message reflects my personal opinion based on open sources of information.

I'm totally shocked because I've just made a COLA calculation of ISS / Shenzhou 7 distances. This day, at 15:07:23, the two manned spacecraft will pass only 36 kilometers from each other!!!

Just a little reminder that they can get there.

If, for some reason, the ISS international partnership continues to refuse to allow China to become a member they should, at least, offer them the opportunity to drop by for a visit, perhaps after China has demonstrated docking capability.

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“You can’t take a traditional approach and expect anything but the traditional results, which has been broken budgets and not fielding any flight hardware.” Mike Gold - Apollo, STS, CxP; those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it: SLS.

Press Conference going on now on CCTV. Questions about the challenge of opening the hatch and the false fire alarm. (Good questions with excellent English translation)

Hatch opening was harder than expected and will lead to analysis to aid future missions. They were not concerned about fire alarm after it was discovered to be in the orbital module which was in a vacum state (no oxygen to burn). Sensor error. No impact on mission.